Chapter Summaries

Zhou Heng captured and killed the level 10 million Eternity Species, He Heng, after learning from his silence that he had been pursuing the Vast Star Nation Library. He collected 100 million Revival Coins and continued absorbing the Dark Calamity while traveling toward the Star Nation Library.

• Zhou Heng used "Where the river remains, the god remains" to seize the Eternity Species, He Heng, as he pursued the Vast Star Nation Library.
• Zhou Heng attacked He Heng before he could finish offering information, reducing his attributes to zero and killing him.
• He Heng’s Divine Kingdom and body turned to radiance, leaving 100 million Boundless Starsea-tier Revival Coins before Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng suspected the Boundless · Lifespan Ancient Tree had gained new functions from absorbing the black mist, then set off toward the Star Nation Library.
• Zhou Heng continued defeating Dark Calamity · Lifespan Years and absorbing the black mist as time passed.

Zhou Heng spent fifty years battling the Dark Calamity and gained the Dark Lifespan Lord skill, which connected him to the Lord of Lifespan. The Lord of Lifespan sensed Zhou Heng and vowed to claim him, while Bai Zhang waited for Zhou Heng to appear at the Star God's Ancient Ballad event.

• Bai Zhang discussed Zhou Heng with the Heaven-Piercing Sword and prepared to capture him for eternal reformation.
• Zhou Heng continued absorbing dark Lifespan Qi by killing the attacking Dark Calamity · Lifespan Years.
• After fifty years, Zhou Heng gained the Dark Lifespan Lord skill and received three blessings from the Lord of Lifespan.
• Zhou Heng considered increasing the skill's Erosion Level and continued killing the Dark Calamity.
• The Lord of Lifespan sensed Zhou Heng in the Endless Abyss and vowed that he would become its own.

You Yao navigated the Vast Star Nation Library’s maze and passed its first stage, then entered a survival trial set in Little Bird Town. After dying by turning in too much Blackwater Grass at once, she learned the trial reproduced a real scene and asked to try again.

• You Yao spent years using her flute to explore the Library’s branching paths until she reached a field of floating books.
• She claimed she could save the Vast Star Nation, passed the first stage, and began a simulation.
• You Yao arrived in Little Bird Town, where Xiong Ba’s Black Bear Guild had taken over local quests and promised players better rewards.
• She accepted a Blackwater Grass gathering quest and died after collecting and turning in 500 stalks, exhausting her three resurrection chances.
• The Library revealed that the trial excerpt came from a real region, and You Yao chose to try again.

Elegance repeatedly challenged the Vast Star Nation Library’s survival trial, where level 31 left her only 120 seconds to escape Red-Lipped Su Mo’er, an epic divine ability. After spending a hundred years and countless attempts without finding a way to survive, Elegance gave up just as Zhou Heng’s Boundless · Lifespan Ancient Tree connected with the library.

• Elegance entered the Land of the Howling Gale, discovered her level 1000 legendary might mount, and was killed almost instantly by Red-Lipped Su Mo’er.
• The library told Elegance that only those who cleared every trial could obtain administrator status, and teleported her back when she tried to leave the book’s path.
• Elegance repeatedly retried the dungeon, eventually coordinating with her mount to survive Red-Lipped Su Mo’er for two seconds before dying again.
• After more than a hundred years and countless attempts, Elegance concluded that she could not clear the trial’s 120-second chase.
• At the moment Elegance gave up, Zhou Heng’s Boundless · Lifespan Ancient Tree connected with the Vast Star Nation Library, only 100 kilometers away.

After his efforts to increase Dark Lifespan Lord (???)'s erosion failed, Zhou Heng entered the Vast Star Nation Library and spent a century studying its vast collection. He learned about the Nation’s history and Abyssal Descent, then prepared to leave for the Large-Scale Event, Star God's Ancient Ballad.

• Zhou Heng stopped trying to increase Dark Lifespan Lord (???)'s erosion and flew to the Vast Star Nation Library.
• Zhou Heng entered the library, received a Witness reward of Light +1.0, and began examining its books.
• Zhou Heng read the Vast Star Nation Royal Chronicle and learned how the Vast Star Nation developed its wonder structures, Great Walls, and Concept Star System.
• Zhou Heng studied the library for a hundred years and gained knowledge about the Boundless Starsea and the Endless Abyss.
• Zhou Heng read that Abyssal Descent occurred when the Boundless Court’s phantom court appeared, and suspected the Boundless Court deliberately caused it.
• Zhou Heng decided to head to the Large-Scale Event, Star God's Ancient Ballad, after settling matters there.

Zhou Heng encountered You Yao, who had spent two hundred years failing to clear the Land of the Howling Gale, and she followed him into the dungeons. He cleared Little Bird Town and the Land of the Howling Gale with ease, convincing You Yao that he was the person sought by the Vast Star Nation Library as they entered the third dungeon.

• You Yao met Zhou Heng and learned he had fought alongside her father, Youtier.
• You Yao invited Zhou Heng to team up, and he entered Little Bird Town with her following close behind.
• Zhou Heng cleared Little Bird Town in one attempt by gathering attributes and defeating Longevity Species.
• Zhou Heng entered the Land of the Howling Gale, rode the Light Giant Wolf, and cleared the dungeon in 120 seconds.
• You Yao became certain Zhou Heng was the person the Vast Star Nation Library sought and followed him into A Nation of One.

Zhou Heng cleared the fourth dungeon and reached the Scholar Star Chancellor, who gave him a fragment of the Truth "Vastness" and entrusted him with the library. The Chancellor revealed his former plan to You Yao before dissolving, leaving her shaken and Zhou Heng holding the tiny library as notifications appeared.

• Zhou Heng cleared the "Cloudsea Sky Realm" dungeon and followed a path of books through the void with You Yao.
• The Scholar Star Chancellor welcomed Zhou Heng and gave him a fragment of the Truth "Vastness," along with authority over the library.
• The Chancellor explained that You Yao had been intended as a pawn in his plan to restrain Su Longevity and restore his strength.
• You Yao paid her respects to the Chancellor, then trembled in shock after learning the truth about her origins and planned fate.
• The Scholar Star Chancellor dissolved into starlight after entrusting the future of Vastness to Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng picked up the tiny library, and a torrent of notifications appeared.

Zhou Heng received the Vast Star Nation Library and its powerful Gift of Knowledge, then used Fate Hint to consider You Yao’s possible futures. He chose to let her find her own path and waited as she recovered from learning something painful.

• Zhou Heng obtained the Vast Star Nation Library, its Administrator Authority, and the Truth Skill Gift of Knowledge at LV10000.
• Fate Hint revealed You Yao’s origins and presented Zhou Heng with several possible ways to shape her future.
• Zhou Heng decided to entrust You Yao’s future to her and waited without disturbing her.
• After ten minutes, You Yao cursed, struck the desk, and told Zhou Heng she had put the bad things behind her.

After leaving the Vast Star Nation Library, Zhou Heng and You Yao parted ways while following separate routes. You Yao headed south of the Dark Calamity on Zhou Heng’s advice, where she used her concept-level talent, Quiet Little Deer, to seek good fortune.

• You Yao told Zhou Heng she would follow him, but later admitted she had deceived him and left alone aboard her Lightspeed Starship.
• Zhou Heng advised You Yao to travel due south of the Dark Calamity, and she changed course to follow his guidance.
• Zhou Heng and the Heng God of All Beings avatar split up, and Fate Hint instructed Zhou Heng to travel for 300 years before helping You Yao obtain the Dark Ancient Willow · Stump.
• You Yao visualized Quiet Little Deer, her concept-level talent, and entered a mystical state that let her seek good fortune and avoid calamity.
• You Yao recognized auspicious signs to the south, increased her starship’s speed to its maximum, and continued visualizing Quiet Little Deer.

Zhou Heng returned to Beauty Star Nation and announced a lecture on the knowledge systems of the Boundless Starsea, drawing crowds from across its civilizations. As Su Longevity and Lan Xin arrived, fate revealed that Finality had influenced their creation and offered Zhou Heng two dangerous ways to respond.

• Zhou Heng checked the withered Ice God Bird egg and the Virus Lord’s erosion, then announced that he would explain the Boundless Starsea’s knowledge systems in Dragon City one year later.
• Beings from across Beauty Star Nation, including Xing Xue and the Star Heaven civilization, gathered in Dragon City to await Zhou Heng’s lecture.
• Blue Sky, Qi Sinian, Su Qinxin, Star Capital, and others arrived in the following months, while Su Longevity and Lan Xin appeared as newly cloned, memoryless lives.
• Fate revealed that Finality had influenced Su Qingxin to clone Su Longevity and Lan Xin in an attempt to retrieve their former selves from the Past and Former Times of Sakast.
• Fate presented Zhou Heng with the choices of killing Su Qingxin, Su Longevity, and Lan Xin, or using the Vastness passage to challenge Finality and put Beauty Star Nation through a brutal trial.

Zhou Heng spent decades teaching the Beauty Star Nation knowledge from the Vast Star Nation, accelerating its scientific and technological growth. When he explained the relationship between the macroscopic, the microscopic, and dimensions, an elegant scholar made of star systems heard him and rushed toward him, calling the subject taboo.

• Zhou Heng taught the Beauty Star Nation about Boundless Endless and subjects from the Vast Star Nation Library, boosting research across his domain.
• Over the next hundred years, scientists and the Blue Star Civilization developed new technologies, while Dragon City grew to a radius of one astronomical unit.
• Zhou Heng explained dimensions and the need to unify macroscopic and microscopic power to raise a Machine God's dimension, inviting his compatriots to investigate the problem.
• At the frontier of the Ancient Star Domain System, Lonely Elegant Scholar, star systems formed a musical figure more than 30 light-years tall.
• The elegant scholar compressed itself to 30 astronomical units and rushed toward Zhou Heng, declaring that explaining the relationship between the macroscopic, the microscopic, and dimensions was taboo.

While Zhou Heng preached science to the Beauty Star Nation, Su Qingxin merged with her dark counterpart and became an agent of Finality. When she discovered that Zhou Heng had no Divine Kingdom, she fled Dragon City, shaken by the mystery of how he had reached Divine Truth.

• Zhou Heng continued preaching the Vast Star Nation’s Scientific System as scientists and Su Qingxin listened, while he noticed Su Qingxin’s growing corruption and chose not to stop it.
• After 250 years of preaching, Su Qingxin reached her limit at the boundary between the Mind Corridor and the Mind Heavenly Palace, where her pitch-black counterpart seized her and merged with her.
• The transformed Su Qingxin failed to contact the outside world because the Master of Boundless Endless’s residual power blocked her, then suspected Zhou Heng had access to a backend data-processing server.
• Su Qingxin and Zhou Heng met each other’s gaze across the distance, and she tried to send her power through the Beauty Star Nation.
• Su Qingxin realized the Beauty Star Nation was not Zhou Heng’s Divine Kingdom and that he had none, then fled Dragon City, questioning how he had transcended to Divine Truth.

Zhou Heng continued preparing the people of Beauty Star Nation for war while Finality’s thought chose to resist by gathering information through slaughter. In Year 283, Zhou Heng returned to the Boundless Starsea and encountered an unusual Elegant One whose eyes bore a thirty-petaled crystalline lotus.

• Zhou Heng told Blue Sky that a blood-and-fire disaster would come but no one would die, then continued teaching the powers of the Vast Star Nation.
• Su Qingxin’s body merged into the ground as Finality’s thought realized Zhou Heng had trapped her in his inner universe and intended her to serve as a whetstone for its inhabitants.
• Finality’s thought chose to resist and gather information about Zhou Heng through slaughter rather than live quietly in Beauty Star Nation.
• Zhou Heng taught the technologies of the Starfield Domain and Mechanical Lifeforms, then began explaining the Soaring Rooftop in Year 283.
• Zhou Heng returned to the Boundless Starsea and saw a 30-astronomical-unit Elegant One playing a guqin; the being looked back at him, revealing a thirty-petaled crystalline lotus in its eyes.

Zhou Heng was trapped in the Zither Virtuoso of the Star’s will adjudication after it used the General and Narrow Eternity Concept of Thought. Torch of Transcendence Will raised Zhou Heng’s will to Crystal☆, allowing him to win and erase the Zither Virtuoso of the Star on a conceptual level.

• Elegant One separated Zhou Heng’s soul and thoughts from his Divine Body and drew him into a world of thought.
• The Zither Virtuoso of the Star explained the will adjudication and offered to make Zhou Heng an Eternity Species if he surrendered.
• Zhou Heng relied on Torch of Transcendence Will to raise his will by one tier during the adjudication.
• The adjudication recalculated Zhou Heng’s will as 2eee(Crystal☆), matching the Zither Virtuoso of the Star’s 3700ee(Crystal☆).
• Zhou Heng won the adjudication, and the Zither Virtuoso of the Star began vanishing conceptually before it could pass its message into the Star God's Ancient Ballad.

After erasing the Zither Virtuoso of the Star, Zhou Heng examined its valuable drops and discovered a device that could bypass the Boundless Court’s limits on light and movement. A fate hint warned that using it would expose him to Bai Zhang, so Zhou Heng held back and continued preaching in the Beauty Star Nation as the final 17 years of the warning period approached.

• The Zither Virtuoso of the Star’s conceptual erasure caused a large haul of resources to drop, and Zhou Heng collected them.
• Zhou Heng found a Boundless Starsea Merchant Invitation, an Eternal Divine Spring, and an Eternity Divine Body Limit-Breaking Device among the drops.
• The device could raise Zhou Heng’s light attribute to conceptual light, letting his movement and attack speed correspond to light-years per second.
• Fate warned that using the device would let Bai Zhang discover and erase Zhou Heng, while delaying its use could help him escape the three Ancient Star Domain Systems.
• Zhou Heng recognized Bai Zhang as his former teacher, kept the device unused, and continued preaching with only 17 years remaining before the 300-year deadline.

You Yao reached the hidden α-β Planet and pressed through its deadly sandstorm toward a figure she believed was the Ancient Era War Lord. Zhou Heng saw that the planet concealed Abyssal beings and that the supposed War Lord was actually a monstrous face of chaos, while You Yao continued toward it with the three-hundred-year deadline approaching.

• You Yao discovered the α-β Planet on her southward route and decided to explore it, trusting Zhou Heng's guidance.
• After nearly ten years, You Yao arrived as α and β revolved around an illusory central planet, then descended in a landing pod.
• Zhou Heng used his perception to see that the planet was a projection concealing two sleeping Abyssal Apostles and the Endless Willow Light·α.
• You Yao emerged into the planet's yellow sands and mistook a distant divine figure for the Ancient Era War Lord, believing it was her promised opportunity.
• With fewer than 10,000 seconds left in the three-hundred-year period, You Yao donned an Exoskeleton Mecha and pushed deeper into the worsening sandstorm.
• Zhou Heng saw that the supposed War Lord was a hideous ghostly face formed from distortion and chaos as You Yao continued toward it.

You Yao approached the false War Lord, unaware that a ghostly face was using her to bring the Abyss into the Sea of Stars. Zhou Heng rescued her and revealed the real threat on planet α-β, then activated the Endless Willow Branch · Abyss α as the entity retreated.

• The false War Lord offered You Yao several witness rewards, and she asked to receive them all before walking closer.
• The ghostly face prepared to touch You Yao and bring the Abyss into the Sea of Stars, but Zhou Heng swapped places with the Heng God of All Beings and rescued her with Where the River Is, the God Is.
• The false planet α-β shattered, exposing a black pillar of light, a hideous face, and an irregular black willow tree growing through reality.
• Zhou Heng drew the Endless Willow Branch · Abyss α, and the ghostly face pleaded with him before retreating into the black pillar.
• Zhou Heng activated the branch's Abyss Sequence α effect.

Zhou Heng suppressed the chaos in Endless Willow Light·α, retrieved Dark Ancient Willow · Stump, and escaped the hideous ghost face’s reach. He gave the treasures and guidance to You Yao, sending her toward the Akalista Twisted Star Domain System to seek Endless Willow Light · β.

• Zhou Heng used Endless Willow Branch · Abyss α to suppress the disorder in Endless Willow Light·α.
• Zhou Heng cut off a portion of Endless Willow Light·α with Sakast · Heaven and Earth Killing Sword and pulled Dark Ancient Willow · Stump from the light.
• The hideous ghost face fled with the false α-β planet toward the gray fog region where Calamity God Eternal Life was located.
• Zhou Heng gave You Yao Endless Willow Light·α and Dark Ancient Willow · Stump, urging her to seek Endless Willow Light · β in the Akalista Twisted Star Domain System.
• Zhou Heng gave You Yao Revival Coins and Element Star Crystals, then switched places with Heng God of All Beings and disappeared.

Zhou Heng entered the “Star God's Ancient Ballad” event, where his powers were sealed but his immortal god system skills remained, and learned that he needed to gain the Music Lord’s powers to survive. He found a Lonely Erhu and gave it to Bing Na, then continued facing the challenge of the event.

• Zhou Heng received a Lonely Zither and entered the event, which sealed his attributes, skills, divine body, and soul while granting him music authority and musician quests.
• Zhou Heng inspected the event shop’s four powerful scores and realized he needed the Music Lord’s powers to find a way to survive.
• Zhou Heng confirmed that his immortal god system skills, including “Scatter Beans into Soldiers” and “Buddha's Kingdom in the Palm,” had not been sealed.
• After flying at the speed of light for fifty years, Zhou Heng found a Lonely Erhu floating in space.
• Bing Na asked Zhou Heng for the Lonely Erhu, and he gave it to her; she merged it with her level 24 instrument, raised it to level 25, and flew away.

Zhou Heng learned how generalized music debates worked and used Scatter Beans into Soldiers to gather musical instruments and capture event participants. After discovering that his summoned Heroic Spirits retained enhanced attributes, he ordered them to prioritize capturing Eternity Species.

• Zhou Heng repeatedly used Summon Wind and Rain to stop Bing Na of the Ice Clan from leaving and asked her about music debates.
• Bing Na explained the annual debate limit and described the conditions for generalized debates, including defeating more than half the participants.
• Zhou Heng gave Bing Na Truth Crystals and used Scatter Beans into Soldiers to summon Heroic Spirits, including Sarendo Sakas, Wang Daoyun, and Wang Wuyi.
• Zhou Heng ordered the Heroic Spirits to collect solitary musical instruments and capture any living beings they encountered.
• Zhou Heng discovered that his summoned soldiers retained ten percent of his Second Personal Panel's attributes and ordered them to prioritize capturing Eternity Species.
• Bing Na concluded that Zhou Heng was the powerhouse who had slain a level 60 million Eternity Species while only level 10001.